Family Therapy & Parenting Counseling in Austin, TX
Family Therapy & Parenting Support for Healthier Relationships
As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Supervisor (LMFT-S) and Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor (LPC-S) in Texas, I offer family therapy and parenting counseling in Austin, TX to help families improve communication, reduce conflict, and navigate changes with greater clarity and calm. I work with parents, co-parents, blended families, and adult family members who want healthier relationships, stronger boundaries, and practical tools for moving forward.
Together, we can identify patterns that may be keeping your family stuck, better understand each person’s perspective, and find more constructive ways to respond to one another. My goal is to help family members feel heard and understood while developing healthier ways to communicate, solve problems, and strengthen their relationships.
How I Can Help Your Family
Families come to therapy for many different reasons. I can help you navigate concerns such as:
- Parent-Child Relationship Challenges: Whether communication has become strained or you’re feeling more distant from your child than you’d like, we’ll work on rebuilding connection and understanding between you.
- Parent-Adult Child Relationship Concerns: As children grow into adulthood, the relationship often needs to shift — I can help you navigate that transition with more clarity and less conflict.
- Parenting Techniques and Family Communication: I’ll help you build practical, age-appropriate strategies for communicating with your children and handling everyday parenting decisions with more confidence.
- Screen Time and Social Media’s Impact on Kids and Teens: Social media and screen time can affect mood, self-esteem, sleep, and family communication — I can help your family navigate these challenges together. My blog guide on social media’s impact on children and teens is a helpful starting point, too.
- Helping Children Cope With Family or Parental Changes: Divorce, remarriage, a move, or another major shift can be hard for kids to process — I can help your child, and you, adjust with more support and less disruption.
- Co-Parenting After Separation or Divorce: I help former partners build a workable co-parenting relationship focused on consistency and your children’s well-being, even after the relationship itself has ended.
- Parenting With Ex-Partners or Stepparents: Blending parenting styles across households or with a new partner takes intentional effort — I can help you find common ground and reduce friction.
- Blended Family and Stepparent Adjustments: Merging two families brings real adjustment for everyone involved — I’ll help you navigate new roles, routines, and relationships with more patience.
- Responding to Defiance or Difficult Behavior: If you’re feeling stuck on how to respond to ongoing defiance or difficult behavior, we’ll work together on strategies that address what’s underneath it, not just the behavior itself.
- Resolving Intra-Family Conflict: When conflict between family members feels unresolved or repetitive, I can help create space for everyone to be heard and work toward real resolution.
- Extended Family and In-Law Concerns: Tension with extended family or in-laws can spill into your closest relationships — I can help you set healthier boundaries and communicate more effectively.
My Approach to Family Therapy
I help family members identify the patterns behind conflict and develop practical strategies for communication, boundaries, co-parenting, and problem-solving.
My approach is supportive, compassionate, present-centered, and holistic — I draw from different therapeutic methods depending on what actually fits your family, focusing on what’s happening right now rather than assigning blame for the past. Small, realistic changes can bring immediate relief and reduce stress, and with consistent work together, many families experience genuinely transformative change in how they communicate and relate to each other.
Whether you are dealing with everyday parenting struggles, family conflict, or significant life transitions, I work with you to find practical, empowering steps toward healthier family relationships.
Other Ways I Can Support Your Family
If your family’s challenges are also affecting your marriage or partnership, my Marriage & Couples Therapy page goes into more depth on that side of things. If an individual family member — whether that’s you, a co-parent, or your teenager — would benefit from one-on-one counseling alongside family sessions, Individual Therapy can complement the work we do together. You’re also welcome to learn more about my background on my About page.
Family Therapy in Austin, West Lake Hills, and Online Across Texas
I offer in-person family therapy and parenting counseling in Austin and West Lake Hills, as well as online family counseling across Texas. Sessions are available for parents, co-parents, blended families, and adult family members seeking support through family changes and relationship challenges.
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Frequently asked questions
Family therapy is a space where I work with your family together to look at the patterns affecting how you communicate and relate to each other. It can help improve communication, resolve conflicts, and strengthen relationships across the whole family system.
If you’re noticing persistent conflict, communication breakdowns, or a significant life change that’s affecting how your family functions, that’s often a sign it’s worth reaching out. You don’t need to wait until things feel unmanageable — early support can make a real difference.
Sessions typically involve open conversation, problem-solving, and exploring the emotions underneath the conflict. I facilitate the discussion to help your family — both as a whole and individually — work toward practical, positive solutions.
No — family therapy can help with everything from major life transitions to simply strengthening how you communicate day to day. It doesn’t have to wait for a crisis; many families come in proactively to build a healthier foundation.
That depends on your family’s specific needs. Some families see real change in just a handful of sessions, while others benefit from longer-term work on more complex or longstanding patterns. We’ll talk through what makes sense as we go.
Yes. I can offer individual sessions for family members who want to work through personal concerns alongside the family work — these often complement and strengthen what we’re doing together as a family.
Not at all. I work with all kinds of family structures — blended families, single-parent families, extended families, and more. What matters is improving your relationships and overall well-being, whatever your family looks like.
I can help you build more effective communication with your kids, address specific behavioral challenges, and create a more supportive, consistent environment at home — practical tools you can keep using long after our sessions end.
My role is to act as a neutral facilitator — guiding the conversation, offering insight, and giving your family tools for constructive problem-solving. I’m here to support your family in reaching the goals you set together, not to take sides.
The right fit matters — you want a therapist whose approach feels right for your family’s specific situation and values. I offer a free 20-minute phone consultation before you commit to anything, so we can talk through what’s going on and get a feel for whether working together makes sense for your family.
I do not accept insurance assignments but will be glad to provide you with the correct paperwork for out-of-network reimbursement submission. Please contact your insurance carrier directly to check your mental health benefits, session coverage amount, and any pre-approval requirements.